Assess the relative influence of three of the following in American Decision to declare war on Germany in 1917

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The First World War or the Great War was primarily a global conflict that was fought in Europe from 1914 to 1918 .Some nations were actively involved in this war and among them were Britain and France . All this long America had not being involved in this war .They sought to remain neutral . They had the intentions of being silent both in deeds and thoughts .As a matter of fact , in December 1916 the then president of America Woodrow Wilson had offered himself as

a mediator in this European conflict . This idea of being neutral did not go for long following a series of events that were going on between 1915 and 1917 .The Americans lost their lives when German submarine warfare declared the sinking of ships tradition . The most hurting was the attack on May 7 , 1915 against Lusitanian ship when 128 Americans perished . This broke the relationship between the Americans and Germans

One of the factors that led to joining in this war was President Wilson 's idealism . He persuaded the congress to declare war on Germany .He argued that western civilization could be destroyed or hampered thus his announcement war to end wars ' This was taken to mean that his intention was to create a ground for peace building and prevention of catastrophic future wars . According to Wilson , the way out to resolving these disputes could only be attributed to issues like ,general association by nations that would form international associations of nations to preach peace for example the league of nations , The Turkish People of Ottoman empire were to become a sovereign . He also looked forward to seeing integrity being granted to Romania , Montenegro , Serbia and Balkan states at the same time Serbia to be given the freedom to use the Adriatic Sea . He wanted the freedom to the seas and free trade . The Italian bs were to be redrawn on lines of nationality . Wilson wanted the abolishment of secret treaties

Another key factor for joining the war was the economic interests . As these conflicts went on , the Americans were eying on it . It was becoming clear that the British-French alliance was at the verge of loosing the war to the Germans . Their anxiety was attributed to the fact that the Americans were fully involved in financing them . As observed earlier the turning point for waging war on the Germans was when they declared the unrestricted warfare on submarines ' in January 1917 . The trading business ties between the Americans and other central powers had a negative impact . It was at this point that Americans declared war but there was nothing to do with naval policy as perceived to be . It was about the safe guarding of their economic investment and trade rather than protecting the poor Americans . In another perspective , due to Americans neutral stand , their businessmen were in a position to trade with both sides and got large profits . They were trading with both the Germans and other super powers...